Acts of Goodness

We like to encourage ‘acts of goodness’ throughout our organisation. Below are examples of some of the things we’ve been involved in over the past year.

Employees fundraise for the homeless

Some of our services have been busy helping the homeless in Leeds this winter.

One of our residential services Alex House held a jumble sale event at the end of December with an amazing raffle to raise money for the homeless over Christmas. The event raised a whopping £413.61; the money is going towards making winter care packages for homeless people in Leeds.

We would like to thank the following companies for donating some fabulous prizes for our raffle :

The packs will be distributed in February and will include hand warmers, foot warmers, gloves, thermal socks, sanitary products, hand sanitisers, blankets, emergency foil blankets, underwear, neck pillows, chocolates/sweets, thermal clothing and positivity quotes. Thank you to all that supported and made this project a huge success!

Our Accommodation Gateway, Recovery Centre and Connect peer support teams also gave back by contributing and putting together Christmas packs for the homeless instead of sending Christmas cards. They distributed the packs in December in Leeds city centre and dropped off 10 winter fleeces to the Crypt as gifts for their residents on Christmas Day.

Hazel's fundraising runs

Ops Manager Hazel ran three 10k runs in 2017 as part of her 'training' in preparation for running the London Royal Parks Half Marathon in London in October.

She raised just over £600 which will go towards a well-being activity or group for service users which will be decided by the service users themselves. Watch this space for more details!

Roxanne's missions

During 2017 WY-FI navigator Roxanne has taken part in a personal fundraising challenge 'Mission for the Mission' which had involved her in various activities throughout the year raising money for and spreading awareness about her chosen charity the Huddersfield Mission.

She has raised £765 to date. Well done for a year of challenges Roxanne!

Cake sale for Macmillan

Our employees also get involved in other charity awareness and fundraising events such as the annual Macmillan coffee morning.

This year a bake off was organised at Head Office with plenty of tasty cakes for employees and visitors to buy. The winner was a Community Links themed cake from one of our Leeds-based residential services Brigid House. The bake off raised £91 for Macmillan Cancer Support.